Hot and sour soup is a variant of hulatang, or pepper hot soup, that originated from Henan cuisine. It is also popular in Southeast Asia, India, Pakistan, and the United States, and is a flexible soup that allows ingredients to be substituted or added depending on availability, with the American-Chinese version commonly thickened with corn starch and the Japanese version often including sake.
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Origin Period, From (Year)Sourced to the subject's own accountWikipedia's Hulatang article states the soup's origins cannot be definitively identified; this bracket reflects one unverified theory tying the dish to the Huizong-era Northern Song court, not a confirmed date. Origin Period, To (Year)Sourced to the subject's own account1127 is the Jingkang incident, the fall of the Northern Song, which the Hulatang legend uses as the point the dish spread from the palace to the folk; Wikipedia states the soup's true origin cannot be definitively identified. Classification
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1. Hot and Sour Soup (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLead section
Hot and sour soup is a variant of hulatang or "pepper hot soup" ... that originated from Henan cuisine.
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SubLabel: Soups and Broths
View the Source 2. Hulatang (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHistory section, Huizong theory sentence
One theory is that soup with pepper originated from the Huizong period in the late Northern Song Dynasty.
History section, Jingkang incident sentence
After the "Jingkang incident", the little eunuch drifted to the folk and opened a breakfast shop.
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